History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c14.s1.4

c14.s1.4

Next in point of time comes Badaoni who is valued highly by European scholars. Badaoni was an orthodox Sunni who saw in Akbar's liberalism the ruin of Islam. He finished his history on February 23, 1596, two years after Nizam-al-Din's death, and though he expresses his gratefulness to the former, he does not borrow his facts from him. He does not follow Barani either. As he says in his preface, he relies upon the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* which he copies in a most uncritical fashion. He does not seem to have taken the trouble of comparing the text of the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* with those of Barani's *Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi* and the *Tabaqat-i-Akbari*. From the beginning to the end the method of Badaoni is the same as that of Yahya, though he omits to mention certain details given by the latter.